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unpicturesque

American  
[uhn-pik-cher-esk] / ˌʌnˌpɪk tʃərˈɛsk /

adjective

  1. not picturesque.


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He was born in unpicturesque Paisley, and brought up on its most notorious housing estate, Ferguslie Park – "Feegie" or "the Jungle".

From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2011

On those occasions when the author is laughing at the South, she is casual, succinct and totally unpicturesque.

From Time Magazine Archive

The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether.

From Time Magazine Archive

The scene then going forward was one of unusual and not unpicturesque confusion.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever

The town into which the highway leads lies straight before my window, flat, unpicturesque, uninteresting, marked by the untidiness of crudeness and the untidiness of neglect.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

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